COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office collected approximately 18,900 pounds of compostable waste during its first two weeks of launching its new composting pilot program in the jail’s Central Kitchen, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Launched...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Legislation championed by Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart that creates new guidelines for missing persons investigations is now state law. SB 24, the Missing Persons Identification Act, sponsored by Sen. Michael Hastings in the Senate and Rep....
COOK COUNTY, IL – An Orland Park man who was shot by Sheriff’s Police as he savagely attacked two women in an unincorporated Lyons Township apartment building has been charged with attempted murder and home invasion, but charges are expected to be upgraded to murder...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A man who dragged a small dog behind his vehicle has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 8 p.m. on Aug. 1, Sheriff’s Police officers stopped a silver pickup truck being...
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Sheriff’s Office is warning the public of a telephone scam in which the scammer identifies as a member of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office and threatens arrest if payments are not made for old warrants. These scam calls have been coming from...
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Sheriff’s Office is warning the public of a telephone scam in which a caller threatens arrest unless thousands of dollars are deposited at a Cook County Jail kiosk. The Sheriff’s Office has received reports that a caller has been contacting...
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office successfully located a missing and endangered man following an aerial drone search of a heavily wooded section of Deer Park West Forest Preserve in Palatine today, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced. On...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Police will be conducting a roadside safety checkpoint in Chicago, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. The checkpoint is scheduled for June 25, from 7 p.m. to midnight, near East 79th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue....
COOK COUNTY, IL – A 57-year-old Chicago man is facing a Class 1 Felony Theft charge after the Sheriff’s Police Organized Retail Crime Unit recovered approximately $400,000 in stolen fitness equipment and other goods taken during area cargo thefts, Cook County Sheriff...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A bill championed by Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart that creates new guidelines for missing persons investigations awaits the Governor’s signature after it passed the Illinois General Assembly. SB 24, the Missing Persons Identification Act,...